Costa Rica 1937 25 centimos

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This coin is among nine types of twenty-five centimos issued between the reform of the colon in 1920 and the suspension of the denomination in 1989. This product of the London mint is common and was issued in 1937 and 1948. It is accompanied by a fifty centimos (KM 176) and one colon (KM 177). The intervening issues during World War Two were brass.

Recorded mintage: 1,600,000.

Specification: copper-nickel.

Catalog reference: KM 175.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Gurdian, Raul, Contribucion al Estudio de las Monedas de Costa Rica: 100 Años de Colon, 2a Ed., San José, Costa Rica, 1997.
• Stickney, Brian, A Monetary History of Central America, New York: American Numismatic Society, 2017.

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• 1935 25 centimos
• 1936 10 centimos
• 1937 50 centimos
• 1937 colon
• Costa Rica 1940 5 centimos
• 1944 25 centimos
• Coins and currency dated 1937
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